Days of Mindfulness - Sister Dinh Nghiem’s Sutra Class 2025-2026

Daily practice blossoms
into a lotus flower with1000 petals
Chanting from the Heart II - 2025-2026
Study of selected Sutras written by Thich Nhat Hanh (continued)
with Sister Dinh Nghiem

This year, Sister Dinh Nghiêm will continue her teachings on the sutras presented in the book Chants du Coeur (available in French and Vietnamese), which is organized differently from the English version Chanting from the Heart. These teachings are offered as part of the Days of Mindfulness (DOM) and will be accessible online via Zoom. In 2026, the talks will be offered with simultaneous translation in English and Chinese, making the teachings accessible to a wider community.

The teachings form one part of the Day of Mindfulness; the other activities throughout the day are held in French. The full schedule and the details are available on the French program page. Dates highlighted in yellow indicate weeks that include a recitation of the 14 Mindfulness Trainings, while the other dates correspond to regular DOM.

Please register once, using your FULL name and email address, in order to receive the Zoom link and follow-up notes by email.

The Zoom link is the same as last year and will remain unchanged throughout the year. Please keep it somewhere safe.
Thank you for registering only once, rather than for each DOM.
Registration - Online Day of Mindfulness
(only for new people - please register only once)
Sister Dinh Nghiêm's recordings, documents and resources are available below on this page.

Only in French : 13 Sept. 2025 - 4 Oct. 2025 - 18 Oct. 2025 - 1er Nov. 2025 - 15 Nov. 2025 - 6 Déc. 2025

  • January 17, 2026: the 12 links of interdependent Co-Arising - Sutra on the Middle Way
  • January 31, 2026: Discourse on Measuring and Reflecting
  • February 14: Discourse on Measuring and Reflecting
  • February 28: Joyfully Sharing the Merit
  • March 14: Discourse on Knowing the Better Way to Live Alone
  • March 14: The Store of Precious Virtues Discourse: Practice of the Highest Understanding
  • April 11: The Store of Precious Virtues Discourse: Practice of the Highest Understanding
  • April 11: The Store of Precious Virtues Discourse: Practice of the Highest Understanding
  • May 9: Mastering Anger
  • May 23: Discourse on the Dharma Seal
  • Jun 6: Discourse on the Dharma Seal

Times are as follows (up to 3/29/2026, before the European time change; times afterwards will be confirmed):

  • 8 AM Montreal
  • 14 PM UTC+1 France CET
  • 20 PM UTC+7 Vietnam
  • 21 PM UTC+8 - Kuala Lumpur / Hong Kong / Singapore/ Beijing

Sister Dinh Nghiêm spent her adolescence in France. She first went to Plum Village in 1985 and was ordained as a monastic in 1993. In 1999, she became a Dharma teacher, receiving the Lamp of Transmission directly from Thich Nhat Hanh. In 2000, at New Hamlet, she became the youngest abbess of Plum Village. After Thay's stroke in 2014, she was one of his closest attendants and remained by his side until his passing in 2022. Sister Dinh Nghiem said :

"Just after founding the monastic community, Thay (Thich Nhat Hanh) devoted three three-month retreats (1989-1990, 1990-1991, and 1991-1992) to teaching all the sutras of the Southern school (now called Theravada) and the Northern school (Mahayana). After these in-depth studies, Thay made a selection and compiled a chanting book in Vietnamese for each day of the week, morning and evening. This was a revolutionary act as, for the first time after several centuries in China and more than a century in Vietnam, the traditional chanting book was revised. It was translated into French following the same format, from Monday morning to Sunday evening. This is Chants du Coeur, which many of you already know. Thay then spent two additional three-month retreats (1997-1998, 1998-1999) carefully explaining all the sutras and chants in this collection. These teachings given in Vietnamese have not yet been published. Sister Dinh Nghiem translated this work, as well as all of Thay's teachings from that period. Today, aware of the deep wish among her long-time French-speaking friends to undertake a thorough study of the sutras, one of the Three Baskets taught by the Buddha, Sister Dinh will, in turn, offer online teachings on the sutras of Chants du Coeur. Sister Dinh Nghiem hopes that these courses will deepen the understanding and strengthen the practice of Thay's beloved French-speaking Sangha.

REFERENCE:
Thich Nhat Hanh, Chants du Coeur, Sully, 8 septembre 2009, 317 pages.
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 2354320329

Documents, enregistrements et lectures - Documents and Recordings below, for 2026

JPC 13 sept 2025

JPC 4 oct 2025

JPC 18 oct 2025

JPC 1er nov 2025

JPC 15 nov 2025

JPC 6 déc 2025

JPC 17 janvier 2026 - DOM January 17, 2026 - FRANÇAIS - ENGLISH - 中国人

 

Available file(s):: 
AttachmentSize
PDF icon Chants du Coeur - Le Soutra des Quatre Établissements de la Pleine Conscience - Satipatthana Sutta.pdf214.78 KB
PDF icon 66 formations mentales.pdf130.74 KB
PDF icon Chants du Coeur - Nous nous tournons vers les Trois Joyaux.pdf72.23 KB
PDF icon Chants du Coeur - La Voie du Milieu.pdf141.9 KB
PDF icon Transcription du discours sur la Voie du Milieu - Sr Dinh Nghiêm - JPC 6 déc 2025 .pdf111.87 KB
PDF icon Discourse on the Middle Way.pdf84.59 KB
Just as vegetation is sensible to sunlight, mental formations are sensitive to mindfulness. Mindfulness is the energy that can embrace and transform all mental formations. Mindfulness helps us leave behind "upside-down perceptions" and wakes us up to what is happening.
- Thich Nhat Hanh